Thomas McLean is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor with Ruth Knezevich of Jane Porter’s 1803 novel Thaddeus of Warsaw (Edinburgh, 2019). He has written on art, literature, and migration for The Migrationist and The Conversation UK.
Thomas McLean
Articles
The Costs of Women’s Writing: On Devoney Looser’s “Sister Novelists”
Thomas McLean reviews Devoney Looser’s “Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës.”
Remembering Peter Nicholls
Looking back at the career of the environmentally-minded Aotearoa New Zealand sculptor.
Finding a Forgotten Artist
Rediscovering the lost lithography of Alice Mary Chambers.
Evil Turns to Statues: Paul Weller’s Style Council Years
Following Colin McCahon
Thomas McLean traces the work and mythic nature of New Zealand modernist artist Colin McCahon.
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